The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were ...

It's been almost 10 years since a librarian in Oakland, Calif., started an online catalogue of the makeshift bookmarks readers used and left behind — and she's built up quite a collection.

Sacks the writer lays out the trajectory of a life—a trajectory that also appeared in his autobiographical books and essays. Reading these letters, one sees it develop differently, first in the ...